- CollegeLondon College of Communication
- CourseBA (Hons) Information and Interface Design
- Graduation year2021
Testosterone poisoning is a role-playing card game about masculinity and its toxic forms. Often various masculinity tropes can be noticed across media, especially in Hollywood movies. This tabletop game takes these tropes and puts them at the center of gameplay. Players become superheroes with absurd toxic masculinity superpowers and try to navigate the world created by the stories they tell.
Final work
Poison Cards
After every mission, every poison played during the round is added up and injected into the tube. Some plot cards will have conditions that will either add or remove testosterone in the tube. When you fill-up the tube you reach Valhalla and win the game!
Testosterone levels tube
After every mission, every poison played during the round is added up And injected into the tube. Some plot cards will have conditions that will either add or remove testosterone in the tube. When the tube is filled you reach Valhalla and win the game
Research and process
Prototyping and game development
Pop Art
Art direction in Testosterone poisoning takes inspiration from the Pop Art movement. Pop art is a movement that is drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Pop artists like Andy Warhol or Claes Oldenburg took mundane everyday objects and put them at the center of the display (Think Soup Cans or Shuttlecock). Similarly, the game takes masculinity tropes and puts them at the center of the gameplay. Superheros in Testosterone Poisoning don’t have powers that are usually associated with superheroes, they have powers that we don’t tend to pay attention to. Powers of toxic/old-fashioned masculinity.
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Testosterone Poisoning
Testosterone poisoning is a role-playing card game about masculinity and its toxic forms. Often various masculinity tropes can be noticed across media, especially in Hollywood movies. This tabletop game takes these tropes and puts them at the center of gameplay. Players become...
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